"glint in the milkman's eye" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Created by analogy with similar expressions such \"a glint in your father's eye\", but implying the child was conceived adulterously; milkmen, visiting housewives while their husbands would have been at work, are often associated with adultery.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "glints in the milkman's eye",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "glints in the milkman's eye"
      },
      "expansion": "glint in the milkman's eye (plural glints in the milkman's eye)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Lisa Wright, “Album review: Twin Shadow - Forget (4AD)”, in NME",
          "text": "It’s no wonder then that, musically, from Summer Camp to Best Coast, we’ve stepped into a sepia time machine recently, transported back to a golden age where romance abounded and Justin Bieber was a mere glint in the milkman’s eye.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987, “Dish and Dishonesty”, in Blackadder the Third",
          "text": "\"And which Pitt would this be? Pitt the Toddler? Pitt the Embryo? Pitt the Glint in the Milkman's Eye?\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone or something that has not been born or conceived yet."
      ],
      "id": "en-glint_in_the_milkman's_eye-en-noun-kRVrNf~P",
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "born",
          "born"
        ],
        [
          "conceived",
          "conceived"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, humorous) Someone or something that has not been born or conceived yet."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "twinkle in one's daddy's eye"
        },
        {
          "word": "twinkle in one's father's eye"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "humorous"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "glint in the milkman's eye"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Created by analogy with similar expressions such \"a glint in your father's eye\", but implying the child was conceived adulterously; milkmen, visiting housewives while their husbands would have been at work, are often associated with adultery.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "glints in the milkman's eye",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "glints in the milkman's eye"
      },
      "expansion": "glint in the milkman's eye (plural glints in the milkman's eye)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English humorous terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2010, Lisa Wright, “Album review: Twin Shadow - Forget (4AD)”, in NME",
          "text": "It’s no wonder then that, musically, from Summer Camp to Best Coast, we’ve stepped into a sepia time machine recently, transported back to a golden age where romance abounded and Justin Bieber was a mere glint in the milkman’s eye.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987, “Dish and Dishonesty”, in Blackadder the Third",
          "text": "\"And which Pitt would this be? Pitt the Toddler? Pitt the Embryo? Pitt the Glint in the Milkman's Eye?\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone or something that has not been born or conceived yet."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "born",
          "born"
        ],
        [
          "conceived",
          "conceived"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, humorous) Someone or something that has not been born or conceived yet."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "humorous"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "twinkle in one's daddy's eye"
    },
    {
      "word": "twinkle in one's father's eye"
    }
  ],
  "word": "glint in the milkman's eye"
}